Michael Biebl <[email protected]> writes: > On 25.02.2010 00:03, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Michael Biebl <[email protected]> writes: >>> [reproduction recipe] >> >> Thank you for the additional information. You still did not >> provide a direct answer to my questions from the cited email. >> Could you do that? Here they are again: >> >> To me, it seems like it would be reasonable for aclocal to create >> the "m4" directory if it is being asked to copy files into it, >> that is, if aclocal is being invoked with --install. But >> autoreconf as far as I can tell never invokes aclocal with >> --install, so this would not help. > > If m4 does not exist at the time aclocal is run and --install is not given, > maybe aclocal should simply issue a warning and proceed? > Simply failing at this point is counterintuitive imho. > >> Actually, I am now a little confused. If your package does not >> have any of its own M4 files in m4/, and it does not use >> libtoolize, and it does not expect --install to be used with >> aclocal, then where are the files in m4/ eventually coming from? >> Perhaps I just misunderstand (sometimes the autotools still catch >> me by surprise after many years). > > I do use libtool, but libtoolize is run *after* acloclal.
Ah. All the pieces have come together for me. I understand now. I will see what I can do. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
